The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-04
Rel,etous Notes.

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Religious Notes
Tbere ara about one thousand unemployed
CONGREGATIONAL ministers in the United States
Rev. Thomas Harrison &c is reported, VIII BE-
gin meeting in Grace NJ t. Churen, JACKSON
vile. soon
Emerson: Every Ultimate fact ia only the
first of a new series: every general law only q
particular fact of some more general law prSs~
emily to disclose itself.
Did you say you were bored by the serskeSs
last Sundayl And did your children hear ySss7
May be you will wonder some day why your
children do not go to church.
Richter. God is the light itself unseen,
which makes everything visible and clothes
them in colors. The eye does not perceive the
ray. but the heart feels the warmth.
Madagascar is almost a miracle of missionary
triumph. The native Christians Of that island
have given more than 81 oo0. 0C0 for the spread
of the gospel during the last ten years
Children have full of their eyes and ears
before their tongues have mastered language.
aud consequently they are learning lessons OF
good or evil sooner than many people suppose
Have courage enough to review your own con-
duct to condemn it where you detect faults to-
amend 1t TO the best of your ability. to make
good resolves for future guidance. and TO keep
them.
world than all the societies and institutions OF
the earth In the last eighty years they have
formed and reduced to writing over forty lam
guaces
Rev DR.. Asbury Lowrey. editor of the Divine
Life who went to South America some time
ago TO examine into Bishop Taylors self sup
porting missions there, has returned TO thiG
The commission to which the question OF tha
seat of the next general conference referred
have decided that it shall be held In New York
city. The other places named We're Boston and
Saratoga.
The LONDON Baptist reports Mr.. Spurseon's
students as in the fullest sympathy with their
president in the stand he has taken against .'tha
iusidious foe of all vital religion, moderE
thought, so called"
Rev. C. L. Guild: The fourth commandment
insists no more upon our keeping the seventh
day, than upon working for six days. He
who has not labored for six days, has no righS
to the holy rest of the seventh.
Short Arrows: In yielding to one temptations
the way is open for SO many Nothing will
who is able to keep us from falling, and earnest
striving to watch as well as pray.
Canon Kingsley wrote:
sDo the thing that's nearest.
Though it's dull at whiles-
Helping, when you meet them,
Lame dogs over stiles.
Mrs Whitney: When the disciples began to
talk about building tabernacles on the mountair
of the vision, Christ led them STRAIGHT down
among the multitude, where there a devil
he cast out. tits the same thing the ola
story of the creation. God worked six days and
rested one.
Extensive preparations are being made by the
Presbyterian Board of Indian Schools to edu-
cats the Indians of Arizona At Tucson they
are building An S. 600 school-house. Fifty acres
of latnQ have been bought the Santa Cruz
river, where the young Indians will be instruct
ed in farming, and another building 20 cost
$4,000, will soon be erected, to accommodate 15e
pupils.
81 I. Hastings: Five minutes private pen ,
sonal entrssaty will often accomplish more ID !
winning souls to Christ than FIVE months publie !!
preaching. Close action is effective A pistol /
a. mans breast is more dangerous to him than
a hundred cannon LAUNDERING at him two miles
away. The preaching may mean any one or no
IN the crowd; but when you talk to me you
mean me.
A denutation of English bishops has been sent
to Austria, says the London Spectator with a
brought about of the Old Catholics with the
Anglican church. The mission has been under
taken the instance of the Old Catholics who
are greatly in want of bishop. Their report
will be con. idersd by the an-Anglican Synod
in July next
London is to have, next summer, a genera
Roman Catholic congress of Law and clerical dels~
gates from all English speaking countries
Among the TOPICS for discussion will be three In
chief: 'The attn tude of the church toward edu-
cation in genera; whether 1t Is possible to arr
range for greater cooperation Of the laity ths
work of the CD urch; and notably, what steps
should be taken for the diffusion of Roman
Catholic literature among the masses"
Dr. Charles S. Robinson has resigned the pass
tora:e of the Madisou-avenue Presbyterian
Church, New York city. which he has beenl
serving seventeen years. PRESSURE OF literary
has led to his retirement from the pastoral
Office. 1t is said that DIR. Robinson contributed
of the church which he leaves, and that recently
he gave Sc, 900 toward the erection of chapel
The Ccngregationalist: In the war year. 1868,
a train of many loaded with soldiers was.
passing through tunnel in the Cumberland
range in Tennessee. In the center of the ratheE
long tunnel it was the blackness of darknesst
''Isn't this darkk" said d soldier Never mind
boys answered another, cheerily, there's days
light ahead" The answer went TO the heart OF
certainly one man who IN trouble
Never mind, there's daylight ahead" Chris
tian if you are in the darkness of trial. there's
daylight aheadi" Be not faithless, but believing
The dark tunnel is the way to light and safety